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APHELOCOMA WOODHOUSEII (Baird). 

 WOOBHOUSE'S JAY, 



Similar to A. califomica obscura, but larger, with more slender bill, 

 and more uniform coloration; under parts of body distinctly gray 

 throughout; under tail-coverts blue; blue of upper parts lighter. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head and neck (except chin and throat), wings, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail, plain dull azure blue, brightest on pileum, 

 where margined laterally by a narrow streak (or series of streaks) of 

 white, the blue dullest on sides of head, where more or less dusky on 

 loral, orbital, and postocular regions; back and scapulars deep mouse 

 gray, sometimes tinged with blue; rump more bluish gray; chin, throat, 

 and chest grayish white, streaked with bluish gray, these streaks broad 

 and very distinct on chest, which is margined laterally by an exten- 

 sion of the blue from sides of neck; breast, sides; and flanks pale 

 mouse gray or smoke gray, the abdomen paler, fading into white on 

 anal region; under tail-coverts light grayish blue or china blue; bill, 

 legs, and feet black; iris brown. 



Young. — ^Pileum plain mouse gray; rest of upper parts (except 

 wings and tail) plain brownish gray or deep drab-gray; an indistinct 

 superciliary line, or series of streaks, of white; general color of under 

 parts dull light brownish gray, paler on chin, throat, chest, and abdo- 

 men, deeper and more brownish on upper portion of breast, against 

 pale grayish jugular area; wings and tail as in adults, but smaller 

 wing-coverts gray and lesser coverts indistinctly tipped with the same. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins), 272-293 (285.5); wing, 129.5-135.5 

 (133); tail, 139-147.5 (143); exposed culmen, 26.5-29 (28.5); depth of 

 bill at nostrils, 9-9.5 (9.4); tarsus, 40-42 (41); middle toe, 20.5-23 (22)." 



Adult female.— IjQngth (skins), 261.5-279.5 (271); wing, 120.5-130.5 

 (126.5); tail, 128.5-140 (135.5); exposed culmen, 24.5-28 (26); depth 

 of bill at nostrils, 9; tarsus, 37-41.5 (39.5); middle toe, 19.5-21 (20.5).* 



Western United States east of Sierra Nevada, chiefly in transition 

 zone; north to southeastern Oregon (Steen's Mountain), southern Idaho 

 (City of Rocks), and southern Wyoming (Henry's Fork, Green River, 

 etc.); east to Colorado, western Nebraska (North Platte), New Mexico, 

 and northwestern Texas (east to Davis Mountains) ; south to southern 

 Arizona and New Mexico; west to southeastern California (White, 

 Inyo, Argus, Coso, and Panamint mountains'^), west to western Nevada 

 (West Humboldt Mountains, Truckee Valley?, etc.). 



Oyanocorax uUramarinus (not Corvus ultramarinus Bonaparte) McCall, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 216 (New Mexico). 

 Oyanocorax califomica (not Oarrulus califomicus Vigors) Woodhouse, in Bep. 



Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 77 ("New Mexico," i.e., Arizona). 

 (?) Oyanocitia califomica Kennekly, Rep. Pacific R. B. Surv., iv, pt. vi, 1856,16 



(Mojave E., s. e. California). 



(2 Five specimens, !> Five specimens, f Mojave River? 



